Written by: Sean Sindt
Photos by: Chris Vandivere
After 8 stops and 3 ½ months of racing, Scott Henry (Team Hammerhead) is the 2009 Pro Texas State Champion. The series points are an accumulation of each rider’s top 5 of 8 races, allowing everyone to have 3 dropped races. Henry was unstoppable this year, taking 3 victories and 2 second place finishes and easily winning the series by 46 points over runner up David Hanes (Ride Away Bicycles). Congratulations Scott Henry!
This didn’t come as a surprise to any pro racers this year in Texas. Henry took 6th at the opener in Terlingua way back in February, and after that he has been either winning or taking 2nd place finishes the entire way. Scott had the series well in control by the middle of the series and then made his championship a mathematical certainty after 7 of 8 races.
Hanes finished the spring with 3 bad races in a row, but luckily his first 5 races were very consistent so that he didn’t have to worry about the last 3. Hanes finished in the top 5 in all 5 of his scoring races. His strongest finishes this year was a 2nd at Reimers and a 3rd at Waco, along with two 4th place finishes and a 5th. Taking 3rd overall was Sean Sindt (Bicycle Sport Shop). Sindt had 2 top five finishes, taking 3rd at Terlingua and 4th at Comfort, then also adding a 6th and two 7th’s. Rounding out the top 5 was Rick Wetherald (Solar Eclipse) in 4th and Alex Morgan (Cycle Progression) in 5th.
Final 2009 Series Standings-Top 101 Scott Henry Team Hammerhead 350
2 David Hanes Ride Away Bicycles 304
3 Sean Sindt Bicycle Sport Shop 272
4 Rick Wetherald Solar Eclipse 255
5 Alex Morgan Cycle Progression 243
6 Payson McElveen Bicycle Sport Shop 243
7 Craig Kunz Bicycle Sport Shop 224
8 Bryan Fawley Park Place Lexus 222
9 Noel Reuter Bicycle Sport Shop 192
10 Jorge Munoz Gold’s Gym Laredo 188
With the intense summer heat coming back to Texas, racing will stop until the fall series starts in September. The fall series is a short 5-race series starting with the Camp Eagle Classic on September 6th and wraps up with the Rocky Hill Rampage on November 8th.
2009 Texas Fall Series Schedule:
9/6 Camp Eagle Classic Rocksprings, TX
9/13 Huntsville Classic Huntsville, TX
10/4 BTU Power Pedal Bryan, TX
10/26 Piney Hills Classic Ruston, LA
11/8 Rock Hill Rampage Smithville, TX
